The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice - Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus & Other Works (2012) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Nesciens mater
02. Ave Maria, gemma virginum
03. Exsultet coniubilando
04. Verbum bonum et suave
05. Missa Tu es Petrus: I. Kyrie
06. Missa Tu es Petrus: II. Gloria
07. Missa Tu es Petrus: III. Credo
08. Missa Tu es Petrus: IV. Sanctus & Benedictus
09. Missa Tu es Petrus: V. Agnus Dei
10. Bona vita, bona refectio
11. Factum est silentium

Jean Mouton was a Renaissance French composer and choirmaster, much acknowledged but more rarely recorded, who wrote a body of music that’s both technically inventive and immediately appealing. Here Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble—renowned exponents of sixteenth-century Franco-Flemish repertoire—perform all Mouton’s eight-part music, two four-part motets, and his only five-part Mass setting, the Missa Tu es Petrus. The latter is characterized by light, clear textures and a soaring cantus firmus, while the double-choir Nesciens mater is rightly famous for its ingenious canon. Sheer compositional skill aside, all these works demonstrate Mouton’s vivid and original imagination—one that has the ability to speak directly to our time.

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